St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-26
He HAS NOT HEARD OF IT.
An Eminent Southern Presbyterian Di-
vine Who Cannot Believe That the
War Is Yet Over.
His Talk at st. Louis Rouses Up
Brother Minister Who Has Buried
the Confederate Ratchet,
And Who Characterizes His COllea que
as a Natural Born Politician in
the Pulpit Of Christ.
A Rather Lively ene---Transacti0ns
OF the Northern Wing, in Ses-
sion at Omaha.


an epitome of the speech made yester-
day afternoon in the Southern PreSby-
terrain assembly by Col. Livingston, of
Georgia, in which he not only spoke in
favor of the majority report on union of
the two assemblies, but handled Dr..
Smoot with bare knuckles. He said
that when the majority made the report
it was out of no diSreSpect for the faith
erS OF the church, like DR.. Smoot. The
speaker admitted he had represented
the people III the legislature, at home,
but he was not talking as pOliti-
clan. He was not politician.
Dr.. Shoots speech was made up of
bloody shirt and an attack upon the
Methodist board. He characterized DR..
SmOOt as natural born politician in the
pulpit of Christ. He said Dr. Smoot had
been mad ever since the Federal army
came into his county in Kentucky and
they made him step up every thirty
days and take the oath. They cOuldn't
trust him more than thirty days. Ever
since that time he's had no use for any
thing north of Mason and Dixon's line.
DR.. Smoot said he wouldn't go if the
rather quantity that they'd ''let him
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any politics in his predecessors address
concerning Wendell Phillips and Lloyd
Garrison. He wondered if Northern
man ever used language more cutting
to Southern people than that was to
Northern people. SmOot was different
from Garrison. Garrison would say to
SmOOt: "YOur rebellion caused all the
sorrow and ruin" SmOOt would say,
"Well, you led us to do it,"
THE WAR WAS OVER
and its issues should be buried forever
and forever. In cooperation the
speaker declared that Abraham armed
his servants and went down and helped
Lot and released him and his
family. They didn't cooperate any
more because the town was burnt
up and Lots wife was turned into a
pillar of salt. Men were supporting the
majority report who were born farther
down into the heart of slavery and the
war than ever DR.. SmOOt was. AS to
the charge that the majority had ig-
nOred the figures, the speaker COM
pletely overturned the proofs. 1t was
not been heard to say that they were
not moving in the matter. The legal
presumption was that the silence of the
preSbyterieS meant their consent. There
was no question but that five spoke
in favor of it. The others either
cared nothing for it, or favored it. AS
to the charge that this movement ought
not to follow the business men, the
children of this world are wiser in their
generation than the children of light.
This Christ had said to certain people
once. The trouble with the PreSby-
terrain church was that there had been
too little business about it, The bust
ness men were hard-headed and
sensible, and a church should have
some of their sense. AS to DR.
Shoots idea of sending mission
aries to convert the New Englanders
from their Unitarianism and other
isms," the speaker said he would like
to be one of the missionaries. They
might answer him in some fashion such
as this: Don't you think you Southern
PreSbyterians had better go back and
have down there?" God never intended
separation of his children. The clause
in the majority report specially stimi-
lated that the Southern church did not
believe in
DELIvERANCEs ON POLITICS.
The Southern church went out be-
cause the Northern assembly in 1861 in
Philadelphia had declared the citizens
to be under the government of the
United States, the government de facto
and de jure, and no member of the
church should bear arms against it, If
this cause was removed then the church
could go back. How many political de,
liverances had the Southern church
made? Many of them. The people OF
Omaha had notified this assem-.
bly, they would accept just what
the Missouri synod had accepted
DR.. Smoot had dug up the bloody shirt
and waved it and raked up every cruel
thing the mother church had ever said
1t wasn't fair to make the mother church
of to-day stand for the church of ten OF
fifteen or twenty years ago. 1t would
have been fairer to have taken later
declarations as the expression of Opin.
ion. If the assembly did not pay more
attention to the overtures now made
the church would lose many Dor
der presbyteries. The whole matter
of church progress and church growth
had been hindered by the two conflict
ing churches in the field. In all other
matters the issues and differences of the
war were being buried out of sight, and
the church of God should not be the
last to harmonize. The assembly de-
voted
THE NIORING SESSION
to argument on organic union. Elder
J. L. Livingston, of Georgia, and Rev
j. NJ. Potts, of Alabama, spoke in favor
of union with the Northern church, and
w. II. Parks, Of st. Louis, opposed it
The invitation of the Second Presby-
terrain church, of Philadelphia, to the
assembly to hold their next session
in that city and extending their hospi
tally was declined, as this assembly has
no church in Philadelphia, but they re-
solved to hold their next session in
May, 1888, at Baltimore, and to take g
recess on the fourth Thursday in May
and proceed to Philadelphia to assist in
the celebration of the centennial ami
verSary of the Reformed Presbytery OF
America. They further accepted theil
quota of addresses, and the following
speakers and subjects were assigned
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, Children OF
the Covenant; Rev. t. M. Hoge, Getty
Evangelization"; Rev. j. L. Gerade au
History of Presbyterianism and Its
Work for the Future; Rev. W. w
Moore, ''Home Missions''; Rev. Jerry
WitherSpOon, closing address; J. Ran
dOlph Tucker, of Virginia, "Adoptior
of Presbyterianism to the Masses"; w
G. p. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, "Cal,
vanism and Religious Liberty; j. T
Cottran, of South Carolina, "Calvanisn
and Human Progress; Clifford Ander-
son, of Geor gia, Lay effort Among the
masses"